Numbering-machine



(No Model.)

J.M.PADGETT.

NUMBERING MACHINE.

No. 548,654. Patented Oct. 29, 1895.

PATENT Fries,

JAMES MILLARD PADGETT, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.

NUMB ERING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,654, dated October 29, 1895.

Application filed March 2 8 1 8 9 5 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES MILLARD PAD- GETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented an Improvement in Numbering-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to numbering-machines where coupons, checks, or tickets are to be distinguished by figures, letters, names, characters, or words.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a similar View of the shoe unattached; Fig. 3, a detail view of the shoe and type-bars, and Fig. 4 an enlarged sectional view to show partition-flanges.

In the drawings, 0: represents the shoe divided by a fixed median partition into two compartments b b, the former for the typebars containing the numerals, and the latter for the type-bars containing letters. The partitions in compartment 5 are provided with the side flanges h to enter grooves g in the numeral type-bars (1, while the partitions in the compartment 12 are only detachable Serial No. 543,601. (No model.)

spacers for type-bars e. The latter are held in position by the screw-clarnp ff, while the type-bars d are held by the groove-and-tenon joint g h to the fixed partitions in compartment 1).

In thedrawings, I represents the coupons;

J, the ink-pad; K, the clasps to hold the shoe A, and L the machine. Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

A numbering machine shoe divided into compartments Z) Z), the former provided with side-flanged partitions and the latter with detachable spacers, the numeral typebars being held by a groove and tenon' joint to the fixed partitions and the lettered typebars by a screw clamp, all substantially as shown and described.

JAMES MILLARD PADGETT.

Witnesses:

A. BERGEN, A. W. DANA. 

